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Sat, 18 Aug 2012 06:13:59 GMT

Sorting opinion and fact with code:

When a statement is incorrect, it will tend to follow a certain pattern. Change out the subject words and you get the same pattern. For instance, hasty generalization:

All bleeps are bloops. All gerbils are purple. All Asians are smart.

These are all false reasoning, the falseness is inherent to the sentence structure such that if we change out "bleeps" and "bloops" for any other subject, it's still hasty generalization. If we were to build a piece of software that allows users to flag a statement for review, the reviewer could be given the statement with different subject words. For instance, if someone argues a piece of obvious bad reasoning like "All black people are bad." the reviewer might be given "All oranges are bad." Without race to potentially trigger the reviewer's bias, the reviewer can plainly see that the sentence is a hasty generalization. This will help prevent bias and politics from interfering with the rational review of statements.

If that's not found to be good enough alone, we could use it as part of a larger strategy.

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